Attachment for headers and header-binders.



D. E. HURTIG 6L F. L. HAGGAH4 ATYACHMENT FOR HEADERS AND HEADER BlNDEHS.` APPLICATION HLED JULY 9. 1911.

1,259,991. Patented Mar. 19,1918.

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ATTACHMENT TOR HEADERS AND HEADER'BINDERS. nrrucmou mw :uw 9. 1911.

1,259,991. Patented Mar. 19, 191s.

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A 7TORNE YS franfllglt UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

DAVID E. HURTIG AND FRANK L. HAGGABT, OF DELPHOS, KANSAS.

ATTACHMENT FOR READERS AND HEADER-BINDEBS.

To all whom z't may concern.'

Be it known that we, DAVID E. HURTIG and FRANK L. HAGGART, citizens of the United States, and` residents of Delphes, in the county of Ottawa and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Attachments for Headers and goeder-Binders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improvement in headers and header binders, where the header is propelled by a motor driven drive shaft extended centrally and llongitudinally With the trend of the header, and the invention has for its object to rovide mechanism of the character specifiedJ capable of bein attached to existir-w machinery of the arvester type, as, ihr instance, headers and binder headers, for connecting the wheels of the cutting and bindin mechanism of the harvester to a motor riven shaft, as used in connection with a self-propelled machine.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the transmission mechanism in connection with a header.

Fig. 2 is 'a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l, looking in the direction of the arrows adjacent to the line.

In the present embodilnent of the invention, the shaft 26 which drives the sickle or cutter of the binder, and the shaft 27 which drives the canvas or draper of the binder, arearranged at the outer side of one of the drive wheels 2 and at their rear ends these Shafts are coupled to shafts 28 and 29, respectively.

The stub shafts 28 and 29 are journaled in bearings 32 and 33, respectively, and. on the extension 34 from the frame, and each of the said stub shafts is provided with a sprocket wheel at its rear end.

The sprocket wheel 35 on the stub shaft 28 and the sprocket Wheel 36 on the stub shaft 29, are driven by a common sprocket chain 37, which engages also a sprocket wheel 38 journaled loosely on the motor driven shaft 17. The chain 37 is an endless chain, passing over the wheels 35 and 38,

Specification of Letters Patent. i Application tiled July 9, 1917. Serial No. 179,383.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

and the upper run of the chain passes beneath the Wheel 36. Hence when the motor shaft is driven, the wheels 35 and 36 will be driven in sprocket chain.

The sprocket wheel 38 is, as before stated, loose on the shaft 17, and it may be clutched to the said shaft by means sisting of a xed section 39 on the motor drivenshaft, and a loose section 4-0 which is mounted to slide on the motor driven shaft and is rigid with the sprocket wheel 38.

A lever 41 is provided for moving the clutch section 40 and the sprocket Wheel 38, the lever being mounted in the usual manner and having a fork whose arms engage an annular groove in the section 40.

The propelling wheels 220it the machine may be driven from the motor, which is supported at the rear of the imachine frame, and which 'drives the shafti 17, or the said wheels may be disconnectedfrom the motor and the shafts 26 and 27 connected therewith. Thus either the propelling wheels, the operating mechanism or both may be connected with the motor.

In moving the binder on the highway or to position, the operating mechanism, namely, the shafts 26 and 27 are disconnected at clutch 39-40- In use, the binder operates in precisely the same manner as the ordinary binder, with the exception that the binding mechanism may be run independcntly until the canvas draper be cleared from cut grain after the propelling motion has come to a stand.

We claim:

In combination with two longitudinall arranged shafts for driving the cutting and binding mechanism of a heading or harvesting machine and a motor-driven propelling shaft also longitudinally placed, sprocket wheels secured to the two longitudinally arranged shafts in the same transverse plane, a drive chain passing around the extreme sprocket wheel and beneath the intermediate sprocket wheel to drive the said two longitudinally arranged shafts in opposite directions, and a clutch connection on the motor driven shaft together with a opposite directions by the endless t of a clutch conrib driving ,sprocket wheel and a shifting lever on said motor driven shaft, the sprocket wheel Secured to the motor shaft being in the, same transverse )lane with the other sprocket wheels, the rive chain passing around the sprocket Wheels of the motor driven shaft and the outer longitudinal shaft and beneath the sprocket wheel of the inner longitudinal shaft.

4 DAVID E. HURTIG.

FRANK L. HAGGART. Witnesses:

J. B. RICHARDS, CELIA NIGH. 

